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Show Uncommon johnblake Spncp & -88 Bell Syndicate. WXU Service. Make np your mind that you will have more or less trouble as you jour-n jour-n e y through Don't Waste Pity this world. You on Yourself wiU meet 'n'lth m a n y disappointments! disap-pointments! Teople whom you trusted trust-ed may turn out to be "bad actors." If they are, drop them from your acquaintanceship. ac-quaintanceship. But don't under any circumstances begin to believe that you are misused, tfiat there are conspiracies against you, or that you are not getting a "square deal." Sometimes you won't get a "square deal." 1 That may be no fault of yours. But don't worry about it. Drop the acquaintanceship of people who have proved themselves to be mean and tricky, and choose friends that you can trust. There are plenty of these. Don't think for a moment that everybody is trying to get the best of you, that your boss is "exploiting" you, or that you haven't any chance to get ahead. Your chances of getting ahead will be just about what you deserve. Today you, like everybody else, have plenty of opportunity to educate edu-cate yourself. But to do that it will be necessary to work, and to work hard. You will find people who will seek to crowd you out and get ahead of you. You will come Into contact with unscrupulous "office politicians." But that kind of people always work themselves out of jobs before long, for they are so busy with their little venomous plans that they will have no time to win any sort of success. Don't work on the principle that this Is an ideal world, and that everybody every-body gets an even break. It is not that kind of a world. But its sordldness and selfishness are overrated. Work out your own plans, and stick to them. Pay no more attention to a rascal-ly rascal-ly office mate who Is trying to "tunnel" "tun-nel" you out of a job than you would to a tree root that tripped you up when you were taking an afternoon walk. Be helpful and considerate toother people. If they repay you with backbiting, drop them, and fiud people who are a better sort. Enough of these exist in your neck of the woods to help make life very pleasant for you. Above all, do not whine. Take things as you find them. Use them for your own good. Take care of your health and your disposition. And in the end you will find that you have been more or less the architect archi-tect of your own fortune, and that you deserved the kind that you got. |